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[diagram]                                                             The 20th.  With animals heads Daged.  By far the loveliest
                                                                      		of this series:  Its breast leaves are wavy and varied
                                                                      		and studied from nature:  Under the fox is a flower
                                                                      		of heavy blossomed grass;  exquisitely finished, and
                                                                      		under the weasel, the stem of the leaf is  twisted and
                                                                      		its edge laid most strangely and lightly over the flat
                                                                      		fillet something as opp:  Conf  Palace p 18.
                                                                      The 23rd.  The great leaves here are more elaborate and heavy
                                                                      		and more classical i.e. less natural:  The heads are fine;
                                                                      		the best of the series:  but evidently modern.  It is a
                                                                      		restored capital - I cannot say of what time - may be
                                                                      		exceedingly recent.  Its heads are the following:-
                                                                      		1.  Latini:  in a Beatrice Cenci cap, and loose hair
                                                                      		2.  Tartari:  in a cap with knob  at top and loose hair.
                                                                      		3.  Turchi:  in the pointed cap worn by Arion.
                                                                      		4.  Ongari:  in conical cap:  a fine head.
                                                                      		5.  Greci:  Injured.
                                                                      		6.  Goti, a little heavy and German;  in Arion’s cap with its
                                                                      		point truncated.
                                                                      		7.  Egicii
                                                                      		8.  Persici
                                                                      		The breast leaves are here very light and delicate - but 
                                                                      		poor - and alike all round quite a new type peculiar

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